Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. Marcus AureliusMeditations. Ch. IV. 36.

The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!And, in baboons, our parent race Was found by old Monboddo.Their A, B, C, he made them speak, And learn their qui, quæ, quod, O!Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek They knew as wells Monboddo! Ballad in Blackwoods Mag. referring to the originator of the monkey theory, James Burnett (Lord Monboddo).

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cavemen dwell;Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clodSome call it Evolution, And others call it God. W. H. CarruthEach in his Own Tongue.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier,Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist Then he was a MAN and a Positivist. Mortimer CollinsThe British Birds. St. 5.

Till oer the wreck, emerging from the storm,Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form:Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,And soars and shines, another and the same. Erasmus DarwinBotanic Garden. Pt. I. Canto IV. L. 389.

Said the little Eohippus, I am going to be a horse,And on my middle fingernails To run my earthly course! * * *Im going to have a flowing tail! Im going to have a mane!Im going to stand fourteen hands high On the Psychozoic plain! Charlotte P. S. GilmanSimilar cases.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee;He sits on the ancestral treeFrom which we sprang in ages gone.Im glad we sprang: had we held on,We might, for aught that I can say,Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day. Oliver HerfordThe Chimpanzee.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny. Lord NeavesThe Origin of Species.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic timeAnd side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime. Langdon SmithA Toast to a Lady. (Evolution.) Printed in The Scrap Book, April, 1906.

This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Herbert SpencerPrinciples of Biology. Indirect Equilibration.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, Am I your debtor?And the LordNot yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better. TennysonBy an Evolutionist.

When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. Thoreau. And hear the mighty stream of tendencyUttering, for elevation of our thought,A clear sonorous voice, inaudibleTo the vast multitude.WordsworthExcursion. IX. 87.